PuTTY Connection Manager-Tabbed PuTTY

PuTTY CONNECTION MANAGER (PuttyCM): PuttyCM displays multiple PuTTY sessions in Tabs. In this article, let us review in detail about the 6 powerful features of the PuTTY Connection Manager that will make PuTTY more enjoyable. Download PuttyCM: PuttyCM website seems to...

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Login Sequence in AIX

How the login takes place in AIX? You need to download and install putty to connect to the server if the server is remotely available. You need to mention the ip address, port number and connection type (telnet, SSH, rlogin etc) and connect to the server. Once connected,...

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Printer AIX

Commands to give print to a job: # lp # lpr: for eg: # lpr –p <printername> <filename> : will print the file to a specific printer. # qprt # enq Each job sent for print has a print job number associated with it. Commands to check the status of print jobs: # lpq # lpstat # qchk # enq –A Commands to cancel the print...

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System Resource Control (SRC)

SRC is basically used to control the entire subsystem. It allows you to start, stop and check status information about various subsystem processes. SRC lists all the services present in /etc/inittab. Once the kernel starts all the background services, SRC is activated. SRC: -          Subsystem group Subsystem Subsystem...

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Network File System (NFS) Concepts

This post will discuss about the concepts involved in network file system (NFS) administration. Prerequisites for NFS: NFS daemons should be running on both client as well as server machines. A file system should always be available on the server that has to be exported. Exported file system must be mounted on the remote client machine. NFS daemons...

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Paging Space Administration -AIX

1) What is Paging Space? 2) What is Page-in & Page-out? 3) What is thrashing? All these questions about paging space will be answered in this very particular post. 1) What is Paging Space? In a system, there are multiple processes running. For a new process to be actively running, the process should be loaded into the OS memory. Once...

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Software management in AIX

Fileset in AIX is named for softwares or dependencies. Group of filesets is called a package. For eg: bos.net is a package and bos.net.nfs.client is a fileset. BOS stands for Base Operating System. BOS is a licensed programming product (LPP). Bundle : A bundle is a collection of a fileset, package or LPP. Bundle is of 3 types: Server bundle Graphics...

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